China's cultural industry saw solid expansion in 2021

BEIJING -- China's cultural and related sectors sustained steady growth in 2021, official data showed Friday.

Before deducting the price factor, the sectors' added value went up 16.6 percent in 2021 from a year earlier to reach nearly 5.24 trillion yuan ($752.38 billion) -- accounting for about 4.56 percent of the country's gross domestic product -- according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

Among the industry's sub-sectors, cultural services secured a 64-percent share in the total added value of the industry, down 0.2 percentage points year-on-year, NBS data showed.

The added value of cultural manufacturing stood at about 1.37 trillion yuan, accounting for 26.1 percent of the total added value of the industry, the data revealed.